UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15501
See a problem?- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15501
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15501.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15501
- Related
- Published
- 2018-08-18T02:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2018-08-18T02:29:00Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In ngpkt in transports/smartpkt.c in libgit2 before 0.26.6 and 0.27.x before 0.27.4, a remote attacker can send a crafted smart-protocol "ng" packet that lacks a '\0' byte to trigger an out-of-bounds read that leads to DoS.
- References
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- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15501
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9406
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/1f9a8510e1d2f20ed7334eeeddb92c4dd8e7c649
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104641
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.26.6
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.27.4
- https://www.pro-linux.de/sicherheit/2/44650/denial-of-service-in-libgit2.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15501
Affected packages
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / libgit2
Package
- Name
- libgit2
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / libgit2
Package
- Name
- libgit2
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
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Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected